End of match music
I have no problem with the playing of Rockin' All Over The World following a Wycombe victory at Adams park. It's a lively, celbratory, uplifting tune that adds to the applause of the crowd to send people home feeling good about their experience at the match.
As for the Elton John piece that gets played whenever Wycombe lose, well, it may have been a mildly amusing joke - once - but to play it every time? There is much debate on this forum about low home crowds and how people can be encouraged to keep coming to games, despite the current poor run of form. I honestly don't think the club playing a song at the end of a losing game that, to me at least, seems to be conveying a "well that was rubbish wasn't it" message to the departing fans is helpful.
On more than one occasion this season I have been applauding the team for their efforts, despite them having lost, and thinking of the positives - "what if that header hadn't gone just past the post?"; "if the ref. had awarded us that penalty we would have gone on to win!" - only for Elton to come over the tannoy and encourage me to feel blue and morose and dwell on the bad result.
Encouraging fans to feel depressed at the end of a match is not going to encourage them to come to the next one.
Comments
What about honky cat
@Uncle_T - do you have a suggestion for what you think would more appropriate?
@Morris_Ital I'd prefer to avoid Elton John altogether, really. The only one of his that I like - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - probably is also inappropriate for playing at a football match.
@BeaconsfieldBlue Not really. It doesn't have to be a specific tune, just something upbeat and cheerful.
I seem to recall that at Loakes Park "Tannoy Man" sometimes/often used to play Monty Python's "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life".
Ooh that was unexpected. I was expecting a link to go up.
Slow motion suicide - Ferocious Dog.
Uncle_T His early stuff is/was actually very good but his voice is shot now and the songs ain't what they were ditto Rod Stewart.
Doesn't matter
When I've just watched us lose in the most abject way, the last thing that I want to be thinking about is old Elton 'rolling like thunder, under the covers'.
Well it needs some sort of music. It would be a bit depressing leaving the stadium in silence like a Good Friday church service at All Saints Parish Church.
'You're my favourite waste of time' by the legendary Owen Paul?
I wasn't expecting that by Jamie Lawson
The only way is up by Yazz if we have won and down down by the Quo if we lost
Losing my favourite game by The Cardigans is more upbeat
'That's Entertainment' by The Jam ??????
'Singing the Blues' by Billy and the Bonkers...
Think it's Bonqua's
Born to Lose by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
If I have to hear Elton tell me about how blue my day has been after suffering a loss one more time, I'll personally dismantle the speaker system!
'What do Dagenham play when they win?'
'Don't know. I've only been going this season.'